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APPLICATION FILED MAYzs |915 Patented Aug. 10,1915.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. 1915.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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ROBERT KEINANEN, OF PEQU'AMING, MICHIGAN.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug.. 10, 1915.

Application filed May 29, `1915. Serial N0. 31,199.

To @ZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT KEINANEN, a citizen of Finland, Russia, residing at Pequaming, in the county of Baraga and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conveyers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in conveyors and more particularly to conveyors for logs and its object is to provide va device of this class comprising a plu'- rality of carrying units adaptedto run over a trackand which may, in one form of the device, be adjusted with relation to each other to carry logs of varying lengths.

Vith the foregoing and other objects in View the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following speoification, pointed out in the claim and illusti'ated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of said specification and in which Figure l is a plan view of one form of Y my improved log conveyer. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the saine. Fig. 8 is a cross section taken on line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a niodiiication. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 4.

Like reference characters indicate corre-r sponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Figs. l, 2 and 8 the reference character l designates the web of the track and 2 the lateral flanges of the same. My conveyer comprises a plurality of units consisting each of a bed 3 supportedupon a wheel 4 which runs over the web l; and the integral upturned bed-ends 5, 5 each provided With a Wheel 6 that runs over one of the flanges 2 of the track. The bed 3 is further provided with the retaining lugs 7, 7 between or upon which the log to be carried is placed in a position at right angles to the bed. Hooks 8, 8 are carried by the bed and to the same the chain sections 9 are secured; the power being applied to one end of one chain section to move the several units over the track.

In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 a modification is shown. rl'he track consists of the web A, with lateral flanges B, B. The carrying units each comprise a bed C carried upon supporting wheels D, D and formed with upturned bed-ends E, E provided with the wheels F, F that run upon the flanges B, B. The bed C is provided with a depending coupling G that may be releasably secured to any link of the chain H so that the carrying units may be instantaneously adjusted with relation to each other upon said chain. Lugs l, l carriedby the bed C' serve to retain the logs in position.

Vhat is claimed is A log conveyei comprising a track formed with a web and with lateral flanges, carrying units each comprising a bed formed with` upturnedbed-ends, wheels for said bed and bed ends adapted t'o run, respectively, upon the web and vflanges of said track, lugs carried by said bed, hooks carried by said bed and chain sections connected to said hooks.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto aiiXed my signa- L ture in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

v ROBERT KEINANEN.

Witnesses HERMAN KoinULA, HENRY JAKELA.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

